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Panty Saluter posted:

What are the things on the right with the four wires going into the top? They look like tiny audio amps but somehow I doubt that Something for the ignition?

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Final run:

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And just in case anybody could keep up with *that* motherfucker...

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

It amazes me that that little fan on top could air cool an engine like that sufficiently. It looks like it would generate more heat than the sun.

Raluek posted:

Lowers the coil voltage to around 9V (and surely limits the current too, but IDR what the actual values are) for less energy while running. Typically bypassed while starting. Modern coils don't need one, I don't think; anyway my MSD blaster coil doesn't use one whereas my stock one did. I want to say that it was for preservation of the coil windings so they wouldn't melt under sustained operation? Someone older than me who was actually around then could probably clarify.

beedeebee posted:

What's the backstory on that 917? It looks like some guys in a shed just put it together as a fun project. I'd expect stuff like this to happen in the Porsche factory or a very professional racing shop or something.

MullardEL34 posted:

Five years and $14,000 later and I finally just drove it home.

freelop posted:

Putting out oil fires with MiG engines strapped to a T-34

MetaJew posted:

I saw this... thing at a gas station a few days ago. Is this one of those gray market Land Rovers that people were importing to the US?


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Paulie posted:

You could get the short wheelbase Defenders (D-90) in the US into the 90's. Although anything left in any sort of decent shape is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

MetaJew posted:

I saw this... thing at a gas station a few days ago. Is this one of those gray market Land Rovers that people were importing to the US?


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Terrible Robot posted:

That's an NAS (North American Specification) Defender, they're easily identified by that partial exo-cage. They had to have those in order to meet tightening DOT regs, as well as lighting modifications and some other changes for the NA market. They only sold them for a few years, '93 to '97, and they are worth beau-coup money because they didn't sell very many during that time, maybe a couple thousand at most.

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MetaJew posted:

Well it looked pristine, and didn't have a license plate. And, it was in a pretty wealthy part of town.

cursedshitbox posted:

to add on that, it has later doors and axles as well.

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beedeebee posted:

What's the backstory on that 917? It looks like some guys in a shed just put it together as a fun project. I'd expect stuff like this to happen in the Porsche factory or a very professional racing shop or something.

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Kevin Jeannette, owner of Gunnar Porsche Racing, has a long history of involvement with Porsches. His start came over 35 years ago with a Porsche repair shop in Southern California. By 1977, Kevin was a Porsche racing mechanic, and devoted his full time to the sport, in 1978, forming Gunnar Porsche Racing.

Kevin began his racing career working with teams racing 934s and 935s, and eventually into 962s. He also started, what would turn into, a thriving restoration business, restoring vintage Porsche racing cars, for this new arena, for these retired racing cars. The early years included such teams as Cliff Kearns/Milt Minter in a 934, the Whittington Brothers at the Indianapolis 500 and in a 934, and 935s. Kevin went on to crew the Swap Shop Porsche 935, including the '83 Daytona 24 Hour winning car, with Foyt, Wolleck, Ballot-Lena, and Preston Henn. Kevin even built the engine for this winning car. It was in the early '80's that Andy Jensen started working with Kevin. They had first worked together on the Whittington Brothers Team.

Kevin moved on to Porsche 962s, with Swap Shop Racing, then Shelton Racing, Primus Racing, Bayside Racing, and Busby Racing. All the while, Gunnar Racing was making a name for itself, for restoring the most historic of Porsche's racing cars, including 917s, 908s (both long tail coupes, and short tail spyders), and 910s, all the way back to the earliest RSKs and Speedsters. The first car Kevin and Andy restored, was the 908 LH (long tail coupe) for the Porsche Museum.

Gunnar Racing, lead by Kevin's innovative thought process, built the first open topped prototype to run in the IMSA Camel GTP class, with the 966 Spyder. Gunnar Racing campaigned the car from 1991, until the final demise of the class, in 1993. The car, which wasn't always the fastest, compared with the Nissan and Toyota factory teams, always attracted attention. It also attracted great drivers, such as Derek and Justin Bell, Hurley Haywood, John Paul, Jr., Jay Cochran and David Donahue, and some Hollywood stars, such as Bobby Carradine, and Chad McQueen. This car was the fore runner of the current WSC/LMP cars that are the top class of professional sportscars, racing today.

Gunnar Racing took on a new amount of enthusiasm, in 1999, as Kevin's son Gunnar, who grew up in, and around, the cars his father was preparing, took to the sport, as a driver, at age 17. Since then, Gunnar Racing ran the 2000 Rolex 24, with Gunnar and Paul Newman driving, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where they finished 6th in the GT class, and Gunnar went into the record books, as the youngest driver ever to complete the race, at 18 years, and 33 days old. Gunnar drove with Panoz Motorsports as a test and endurance driver in 2002 and ran the full season with them in 2003.

Not to forget their roots in vintage Porsche's, Gunnar Racing is also very active in historic racing, keeping a whole stable of cars race ready, including some that Kevin and Andy worked on when they were being campaigned professionally. The current staff at Gunnar Racing includes: Kevin Jeannette, Andy Jensen, Bret Plazak, Paul Frederick, Sharon Jeannette, Gunnar Jeannette and Jesea Jeannette. It is doubtful that Kevin, Andy, and the entire Gunnar Racing staff are looking to retire anytime soon. There is far too much racing yet to experience!

Das Volk posted:

That's such a strange looking plastic to me, I'm wondering if it's some sort of GFRP or bakelite...

D C posted:

Thats because it's fiberglass.

Bape Culture posted:

What do you think gfrp is?